Abstract
AbstractThe indispensable transformation to a (more) sustainable human society on this planet heavily relies on innovative technologies and advanced materials. The merits of nanoparticles (NPs) in this context are demonstrated widely during the last decades. Yet, it is believed that the impact of particle‐based nanomaterials to sustainability can be even further enhanced: taking NPs as building blocks enables the creation of more complex entities, so‐called supraparticles (SPs). Due to their evolving phenomena coupling, emergence, and colocalization, SPs enable completely new material functionalities. These new functionalities in SPs can be utilized to render six fields, essential to human life as it is conceived, more sustainable. These fields, selected based on an entropy‐rate‐related definition of sustainability, are as follows: 1) purification technologies and 2) agricultural delivery systems secure humans “fundamental needs.” 3) Energy storage and conversion, as well as 4) catalysis enable the “basic comfort.” 5) Extending materials lifetime and 6) bringing materials back in use ensure sustaining “modern life comfort.” In this review article, a perspective is provided on why and how the properties of SPs, and not simply properties of individual NPs or conventional bulk materials, may grant attractive alternative pathways in these fields.
Highlights
This demands to define sustainability in this regard on a fundamental level for which we refer to Lineweaver’s and Sustainability is more important than ever to assure future Townes O’Brien’s article “The Cosmic Context of the Millenof humankind
In order to cope with volume changes at the anode, SPs that are described as hollow microspheres were reported as promising candidates
Technology is a crucial and key contributor to secure the fulfillment of human needs in line with ensuring the ability for us to exist constantly, i.e., to achieve a sustainable living on the planet
Summary
This demands to define sustainability in this regard on a fundamental level for which we refer to Lineweaver’s and Sustainability is more important than ever to assure future Townes O’Brien’s article “The Cosmic Context of the Millenof humankind. A “sustainable” system possesses a low rate of entropy increase and its integral over time can be infinitely extended This yields a higher overall entropy and fulfilling the second law of thermodynamics better, is the sustainable rate that keeps the ecosystem alive (Equation (3)).[4]. From these considerations follows that an intact ecosystem increases in entropy and causes dissipation of any form of resources. 1) Purification technologies and 2) agricultural delivery systems secure humans “fundamental needs.” 3) Energy storage and conversion, as well as 4) catalysis sustain our “basic comfort.” 5) Extending materials lifetime and 6) bringing materials back in use ensure sustaining “modern life comfort.”. Our modern world is energy and materials dependent, i.e., “a materials world.”
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